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2.0: In pre-alpha development
* Vague goal of an alpha or beta release in 1999. Commit-then-review
* Pipes to CGI scripts are not being timed out
Status: Paul Reder is working on this.
Status: Paul Reder is working on this.
Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
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* Windows NT port isn't done
Status: Bill is working on MPM and APR. Remaining work:
1. Add back ability to run Apache as a service
2. Fix Win9* specific code in the winnt MPM
3. Get the MPM working in multi process mode (one parent & one child)
4. Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the native file I/O
calls serialize automagically like the CRT calls or do we need to
add region locking each time we write to the
access/error logs?
* Current 2.0 code is not tested on many Unix platforms. Make 2.0
work on most, if not all the systems 1.3 did
Status: Autoconf and APR will get us most of the way there.
* The module API is a weird combination of the old table and the new
hook system. Switch completely to the new hook system
Status: Ben Laurie is working on this.
RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
* Win32: Redirect stderr to the error log. This is tougher than it appears
because Apache for Windows now uses native file I/O libraries rather than
the CRT library. No problem redirecting native I/O STDERR to the error log.
However, we need to replace all the fprintf(stderr...) calls with something
that will write to the native stderr handle instead of the CRT stderr handle.
* Move I/O layering into APR.
* There are still a number of places in the code where we are loosing error
status (
i.e. throwing away the error returned by a system call and replacing
it with a generic error code)
* APRize the stat function. CRT stat() is about 30% slower on Windows than
the equivalent native Windows call. The APR call should return the Unix
style stat structure, just to keep it familier.
* Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
Status: Bill has prototype code (not reliable) in 1.3. Should be much
* Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration.
* Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
* The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
Other bugs that need fixing:
* MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
"MaxConnectionsPerChild".
* Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
* Areas where APRFile is being used need to be cleaned-up
* SIGSEGV on Linux seems to only kill a thread, not a whole process;
we need to work around this, probably by bouncing the signal to
the sigwait thread. But this will hurt debugability.
Other features that need writing:
* Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
* TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
* Odd comments in source (egrep for "ZZZ") need to be cleaned-up
* Work on other MPMs. Possible MPMs discussed or in progress include:
- Dean Gaudet's async MPM
- Zach Brown's <zab@zabbo.net> Linux siginfo MPM
Documentation that needs writing:
* The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
* New directives in the various MPMs
Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
* Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
does not show the contents of new files until later.
* Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
* What do we do about mod_proxy?
* Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?